Then there was the regular sight of punk curmudgeon Mark E Smith haggling over the price of post-sell-by-date beers at the local off-licence.
With so much money sloshing around the art world, it's not just cynical realists who worry that the market is overheating.Among the anxious are Jianping Mei and Michael Moses of New York University, who compile an index which shows that prices of post-war and contemporary art have done better than the S&P 500 Total Return index over the past ten years (see chart).
PC Andy Hall, tweeting as @gmpradcliffe had joked about the high price of chocolates, posting a message: "#crimeupdate Cadburys Starbar 78p!!? Maltesers 80p!!!" He also posted lyrics from Coldplay and the Killers on his police account.
The smaller parties - from UKIP to the SNP - all have optional extras they want included in the price of a post-election pact with Labour or the Conservatives.
Energy and resource stocks led the Thursday fall across the region, as the price of gold posted its steepest one-day drop in two years, while the crude oil contract price for front-month delivery dove the most since 1991 overnight in New York.
With the economy continuing to bewitch, bother and bewilder shoppers, the goal is to encourage purchases even if they take place at sale prices reminiscent of post-Halloween clearances.
Earlier this year, Rothko's Orange, Red, Yellow sold for £53.8 million - the highest price paid for a piece of post-war art at auction.
Earlier this year, his Orange, Red, Yellow sold for £53.8 million - the highest price paid for a piece of post-War art at auction.
Earlier this year, his Orange, Red, Yellow was sold for £53.8m, the highest price paid for a piece of post-war art at auction, after it went under the hammer at Christie's in New York.
Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio, trying to clear the path for Ms. McMorris Rodgers and head off a divisive fight, offered Mr. Price the post of chairman of the House Republican leadership.
Led by sales of its 911 Turbo model, which has a retail price of $115,000, Porsche posted a record pretax profit of $830 million on sales of $4.87 billion in its fiscal 2002 results.
